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Looters and rioters are what fills the vacuum when the good guys refuse to stand up and be counted. And of course big government. That is the legacy of inaction.
1 posted on 01/01/2021 8:39:36 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Get out of here with this protest nonsense.

ARMED men should have showed up en masse to protect the southern statues and the confederate flag. And the Columbus statues.

Some Italian neighborhoods took patrols with baseball bats.

We’re WAY past protesting.

Nobody will care.

When a government has made up its mind, it’s time to dance..not carry posters with slogans.

Remember the MANY many millions who protested against bush attacking Iraq? How’d that pan out?

Just one example of many.

It’s past protest time.

We either act for real if biden gets in or we don’t.

Thank God we didn’t “protest” against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor.


2 posted on 01/01/2021 8:42:53 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

When do those of us working and earning and raising kids have time to protest?

That is the advantage the left has —- lots of childless man-children with loads of free time on their hands.

It’s why I vote, and why we have been cheated out of its power.

I guess when we are all unemployed under leftist policies, we can protest then.


3 posted on 01/01/2021 8:43:37 AM PST by Aqua225 (Realist)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The universe actually prefers a vacuum. Even the densest material is mostly empty space.


5 posted on 01/01/2021 8:51:06 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The fact that most conservatives have jobs and responsibilities sort of makes it more difficult to show up. There is no conservative George Soros to pay the costs.


6 posted on 01/01/2021 8:53:08 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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This is something I wrote about a year ago, but journalists know that protesting makes us more powerful than them.

They’ve written it. It’s not conjecture. Public meetings are superior to newspapers.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3808757/posts


9 posted on 01/01/2021 9:11:24 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

“But for decades, we’ve had a cancer that looks down on the constitutionally required act of protesting, as if that’s just “a left wing thing”. This is a widespread viewpoint among Establishment Republican”

Oh, come on now, “we’re better than that”.

And, “we don’t want to sink to their level!”


10 posted on 01/01/2021 9:23:31 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I’m very much for vigorous protests but most people today are complacent, simply fail to see any need to protest, and believe protests are not going to change anything anyway. It’s like calling or writing elected officials. Most people are convinced it’s a waste of time and will accomplish nothing, especially if their representatives are already clearly on record in opposition to the position advocated by the protester or caller.

Another political strategy that was common for many years was pamphleteering.


15 posted on 01/01/2021 5:59:57 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Conceding the result of a fraudulent election is both irrational and immoral.)
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